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Letters, From Aubrey Beardsley To Leonard Smithers. Edited with Introduction and Notes by R.A. Walker.

By: (AUBREY BEARDSLEY): WALKER, R.A.:

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, The First Edition Club (Chiswick Press), 1937 1st thus:

Seller ID: 85154

Hardback, approx 8.5 x 6.5 inches. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative gilt line-paneled design to cover. Pictorial endpapers. In very good near fine condition. Some very minor slight rubbing to corners. Else cover very clean and smart. With protective clear jacket. Endpapers clean and bright. No penned inscriptions. Many pages still have uncut folded edges. An excellent clean and tight copy. Unpaginated. Pictorial endpapers. With a B&W title page design by Aubrey Beardsley, and two photogravure portrait plates.
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A Double Life. A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb.

By: (BURTON, SARAH) / LAMB, CHARLES & MARY:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Viking. 2003 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 84988

5.5 x 8.75 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). A very clean and tight copy. 446pp. Biography of the Charles and Mary Lamb, the brother and sister who wrote Lamb’s Tales From Shakespeare. The author discusses their hidden life, Charles’s depressive alcoholism and Mary’s violence.
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Adonais. A Life of John Keats. Illustrated. In Leather Fine Binding.

By: (KEATS): HEWLETT, Dorothy:

Price: £300.00

Publisher: New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938 1st US edition:

Seller ID: 85153

Hardback, Tall 8vo. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. In fine leather binding. Quarter bound orange morocco leather to spine and corners and light orange cloth to boards. Raised banding, gilt lettering and embossed decorations to spine and edges. Top page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In excellent near fine condition. Stunning fine leather binding. A couple of very minor handling marks to corner/edges of boards else lovely clean smart cover. No penned inscriptions or marks. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else an excellent clean and tight copy. 415pp. Illustrated with 13 full-page B&W p...
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Hero. The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

By: (LAWRENCE, T.E.) KORDA, MICHAEL:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: JR Books. London. 2011 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 84522

Size 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper and pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. D/W Not price clipped. 762pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. The author aims to show the man behind the legend without tarnishing his reputation.
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Image for Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; From the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey. To which is Prefixed, an Introduction, vindicating the Character of Lord Russell Against Sir John Dalrymple,etc.; To this edition is now added, The Trial of Lord William Russell for High Treason. Extracted from the State Trials. Fifth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

Letters of Lady Rachel Russell; From the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey. To which is Prefixed, an Introduction, vindicating the Character of Lord Russell Against Sir John Dalrymple,etc.; To this edition is now added, The Trial of Lord William Russell for High Treason. Extracted from the State Trials. Fifth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

By: (LORD RUSSELL)

Price: £145.00

Publisher: Dublin, Printed for C. Dilly, 1775 5th:

Seller ID: 82205

Hardback, 7 x 4 inches. In full tree calf leather binding, raised and gilt banding to spine, with maroon leather spine label lettered in gilt. Speckled page edges. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped, small chips to corners of rear board. Small label mark to top end of spine. Tiny hole/crack to leather nr bottom of spine on front. A couple of minor marks to boards. Bookplate to endpaper “Rev. Thomas Greene,” with neat inscription to top corner of title page. A couple of odd minor spots to pages inside, else a very clean and tight copy. Lxxvi + 237 + 74p...
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Descents of Memory. The Life of John Cowper Powys.

By: (POWYS, John Cowper) / KRISSDOTTIR, MORINE:

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London. Overlook Duckworth. 2007 1st edition:

Seller ID: 84981

Size approx 8.5 x 6 ins. Hardback half bound in dark blue paper with gilt lettering on spine and light blue paper to boards. In original illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (DW Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). A very clean and tight copy. 480pp. With b&w photo illustrations and portraits. Biography.
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Worthy Dr.Fuller. Illustrated with twelve pages of half-tone plates.

By: ADDISON, WILLIAM:

Price: £6.00

Publisher: london: J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd. 1951 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73883

Size 5.75 x 8.5 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt to black title label on spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly rubbed at ends. A couple of small tears to top edge. Price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 298pp. With b/w illustrations. Thomas Fuller is best know for his ‘History of the Worthies of England’. This biography gives his social and educational background, including the Civil War.
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Amiel's Journal The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel. Translated with an Introduction and Notes.

By: AMIEL, Henri-Frederic: WARD, Mrs. Humphrey:

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., 1906 repr:

Seller ID: 80090

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. In polished dark blue leather, raised banding and gilt decoration and lettering to spine, gilt paneled boards, all edges gilt and marbled endpapers. Fine binding by “Morrell, London.” In very good condition. Sumptuous fine leather binding by “Morrell, Binders, London.” Some minor rubbing to corners. Some light foxing spots to endpapers. Inside pages very clean and tight. Else a stunning copy. 318pp.
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The Whispering Gallery. Being Leaves from a Diplomat’s Diary.

By: ANON: (PEARSON, Hesketh)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1926 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 82941

Hardback, 9 x 5.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with yellow lettering to spine and front. Top page edges red. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Corners slightly rubbed. Some minor handling marks to boards. Slight browning to endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper, “Southborough”. Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 258pp. Originally published anonymously, The book is a fictional diary, published as an anonymous hoax. This caused the author to be prosecuted for attempted fraud, but he won the case. It was still w...
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An Anecdote to the Miseries of Human Life, In the History of the Widow Placid, and Her Daughter Rachel. The Seventh Edition.

By: ANON;

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Printed by J. Haddon for T. Williams, London. 1812 7th ed:

Seller ID: 74590

Size approx 4 x 7 inches. Half bound in maroon calf leather to spine and corners with marbled paper covered boards. Gilt decoration and lettering to spine with black leather spine label. Page edges marbled. In very good condition. Leather and boards are faded with some rubbing to edges and corners. Inside is immaculately clean and tight and pages remain bright. Owners booklabel and label “B.Hunt, Fancy Bookbinder & Stationer, Birmingham” to front endpaper. 134pp.
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Poachers Pie SIGNED COPY.

By: ARCHER, FRED:

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976 1st:

Seller ID: 83519

Hardback, approx 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Green cloth with gilt to spine, in dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW some minor rubbing to edges, not price clipped.) Cloth clean. Authors signature to title page. Pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 160pp. Illustrated with B&W photos and line-drawing vignettes to each chapter.
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Home for Christmas. A Wartime Anthology. Illustrated by Matilda Hunt.

By: ARCHER, JEREMY:

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Century. London. 2007 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73365

Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Green endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 222pp. With b/w line drawings. Collection of stories, reports, diary entries and letters relating to Christmas in wartime, from the American War of Independence to the Iraq War in 2006.
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Held Fast for England. G.A.Henty, Imperialist Boy’s Writer.

By: ARNOLD, GUY:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London. Hamish Hamilton. 1980 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 63231

8vo. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 195pp. With b/w portrait frontis. Biography of G.A.Henty, examining his background, life as a War Correspondent and attitudes to Non-British people in his novels.
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Held Fast for England. G.A.Henty, Imperialist Boy’s Writer.

By: ARNOLD, GUY:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London. Hamish Hamilton. 1980 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 64169

Image for Ralph Thoresby, the Topographer; His Town and Times. With Portrait of Thoresby, From the Original Painting by Parmentier. In Two Volumes. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION.

Ralph Thoresby, the Topographer; His Town and Times. With Portrait of Thoresby, From the Original Painting by Parmentier. In Two Volumes. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION.

By: ATKINSON, D. H.;

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Leeds. Walker and Laycock, 1885 1st LTD Numbered edition (260/500.):

Seller ID: 77442

2 voluems. Hardbacks, half bound in green cloth boards and vellum spines with brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. In very good conditions. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed, spines darkened, spine labels rubbed, label on vol.1 has repaired tear. A couple of small marks to cloth. Endpapers darkened with some neat pencil notations at front. Numbered page darkened. A couple of spots to frontis. Some neat pencil notations to margins. Else inside pages very clean and tight throughout. 443 + 443pp (+ indices and notes.) Illustrated with an engraved frontis Portrait of Thore...
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Memoirs of British Ladies, Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill, In the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences.

By: BALLARD, George;

Price: £175.00

Publisher: London, T. Evans, 1775:

Seller ID: 77869

Hardback, approx 8.5 x 5 inches. In full polished calf leather binding, red and brown leather spine labels lettered in gilt, raised banding, plain endpapers, speckled page edges, gilt board edges. In very good condition. Professional repair to spine, corners bumped with a couple of small chips, edges rubbed, some small marks to boards. Glue repair to inside front hinge. Bookplate and neat inscription to front endpaper “Doctors Commons 1828.” Some slight darkening to title page and opposite where silk pagemark has been laid. A couple of small minor foxing spots else a very clean and...
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Clock This. My Life as an Inventor.

By: BAYLIS, TREVOR:

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Headline. 1999 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 74045

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Light brown endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 272pp. With b/w and colour photographs. Autobiography of the inventor of the clockwork radio.
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A Dash of Salt.

By: BECK, Stuart:

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Navigator Books. 1993. First edition.:

Seller ID: 84609

6.5 x 9.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (D/W slightly rubbed around edges. Not price clipped). Author’s inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 248pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. Autobiography of an artist and graphic designer, a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
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Beningfield’s Vanishing Songbirds. Text by Betty Beningfield. Introduction by Robin Page. Signed copy.

By: BENINGFIELD, BETTY:

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Bird’s Farm Books. 2001 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 83773

Hardback, Size 9.0 x 9.75 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). Authors’ signature to main title page. A very clean and tight copy. 144pp. With colour plates and b/w line drawings. Gordon Beningfield’s final book, published posthumously with text by his widow, decries the changes in farming practice which have led to a decline in songbirds. The text is interspersed with verses by John Clare.
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Mop Fair Some Elegant Extracts from the Private Correspondence of Lady Viola Drumcree, the Fatherless Daughter of Feodorovna, Countess of Chertsey.

By: BINSTEAD, Arthur M.:

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London & Edinburgh; Sands & Co. 1905 1st:

Seller ID: 79860

Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. In light blue cloth binding with colour pictorial design to front, and black lettering to spine. In very good condition. Some rubbing and fading to cloth; edges and corners rubbed, some rubbing to front but mostly to rear board. Some minor darkening to endpapers, with neat inscription to front “Done, 1905.” Else inside pages all very clean and tight. 219pp. + 4pp cat.
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